The Brookhaven leader., 1887-06-30

saying:
Courage, poor boy, courag,w
Covering up his head from the beast
iality, and stopping his cars from the
cursing, he gets up better and better. He
washes his face clean at the public hy-
drant With q few pennies got at rum
ming errands, he gets a better coat
Rough men, knowing that be comes from
low street, sayi
Back with you. you little villain. to the
place you come from"
But that night the boy saysi "God help
me, can not go back"
And quicter than ever mother few at
the cry of child's pain, tn, Lord re.
spends from the heavens: Courage, poor
bow, courage"
His bright face gets him a position.
After awhile he is second clerk. Years
pass on, aud he Is q st clerk. Years
pass on. The glory OF young manhood is
on him. He c)mes into the hrm. He
goes on from one business success to
another. Hs has achieved great
fortune. He is the friend of the Church
Of God, the friend of all coed institu.
tons, and one day he stands talking to
the b pard OF Trade, or to the Chamber OF
Commerce.
isl Why, that is a merchant prince, anc
he was born on Elm street"
But God says in regard to him some
thing better than that.
These are they that came out OF great tribu.
lation, and had their robes washed and made
white in the blood OF the Lamb.
o, for some one TO write the history of
b v heroes and girl heroines who have
triumphed over want and starvation, and
nth AMI rags! Yea, the record has al
ready been ma te-made by the hand Of
God; aud when these shall come at last
with songs and rejoicing, 1t will take q
very broad banner to hold the names Of
all the battle fie DIS on which they got the
victory.
Some years ago a roughly clad, ragged
boy came into my brothers ONCE in New
York and said:
"Mr. Talmagc, lend mo FIVE dollars"
My brother said: who are yout"
The boy replied: ~ am nobody. Lend
me FIVE dollars"
"what do you want to do with Ave dol
larsr
well" the boy replied, ''my mother is
sick and poor, and l want to go into the
newspaper business, and l shall get q
home fov her, and will paw you back"
My brother gave HIM five dollars, Of
course never expecting to see it again;
but he said:
"When will you pay itt"
The boy said: ~ will pay it in six
months, sir"
Time went by and one day a lad came
into my brothers. Office, and said:
There's your five dollars"
"What do you meant What five del
larsa' inquiI ed my brother.
Don't you remember that boy came
in he"e six months ago aud wanted tc
borrow five dollars to go into the news
panor husinessr
80, YES, | remember; are you the ladr
"Y So he REPLIED, II have got along
nicely. ! have got nice home for nv
mother (She 10 sick yh) and | am as
wei clothed as you are, and there's your
five dollars"
O, was he not worth savingi Why,
that lad is worth fifty such boys as have
sometimes seen moving in elegant cir
cles, never put to any use for God or man
Worth savingi I go farther than that.
and tell you they arc not only worth saw.
ing, but they are being saved. One Of
these lads picked up from our streets,
sent West by nevolent society, wrote
East, SAYING:
~ am getting along first rate. am on
probation in the Methodist Church.
shall be entered as member the first OF
next month. l now teach Sunday
school class Of eleven BOYS. get alone
first rate with it. This is q splendid
country to make living in. If the boys
running around the streets with black
ing box on their shoulder, or a bundle o.
papers under their arms, only knew w al
high old times we boys have out here,
they wouldn't hesitate about comm 0
West. but come the first chance they got. "
80 some by one humane and Christian
visitation, and some by another, are bein q
rescued. In one reform school, through
whic h 1000 Of the little ones passed. !. sos
turned out well. In other words, only five
of the two thcu'and turned out badly
There are thousands of them who,
through Christian societies, have beer
transpl intel to beautiful homes all over
this land, and there are many who,
through the rich grace Of our Lord Jesus
Christ, have already won the crown.
A little girl was founl in the streets Of
Baltimore and taken into one Of the re-
form societies, and they said to her:
what is your nameF' She said: my
name is Mary"
What is your other name~ She said:
Il don't know"
So they took her into the reform society,
and as they did not know her last name
they always called her "Mary Lost" since
she hid been picked up out of the street
Bat she grew on, and after awhile tho
Hoy Spirit came to her heart ard she
beca me Christian child, and she changed
her name; and when anybody asked her
what her name WAS she sHii:
at used to be Mary Lost, butn since
| have become q Christian, it ls Mary
+ sund."
For thia vast multitude are we willing
u go forth from this mornings service
and see what we can do, employing AL
the agencies l have spoken Of for
he rectihcat!on of the poisone |
fountainsl We live in beautiful
city. The lines have fallen to US in pleas
ant places, and we have a gOodly her.
itage: and any man who does not like 8
residence in Brooklyn must be a most un-
com Portable and unreasonable man. But,
my friends, the material prosperity of a
city is not its chief glory. There may be
fine houses aud beautiful streets and that
all be The garniture of sepulcher. Some
of the most prosperous cities of the wor
have gone down, not one stone left upon
another But city may be in ruins
long before a tower has fallen, OF
column has crumbied, or a tomb
has been defacel. When in city the
churches OF God are full of cold formali-
ties and inanim alto religion; when the
houses of commerce are the abode Of
fraud and unholy traffic; when the
streets are filled with crime uaarrestei
and sin unenlighteaen and heplessness